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From self-nourishment to being fed Humanized eating and drinking come with moral values attached to them, foremost the rule of sharing.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

The love of self-nourishment, grounded in the love of imbibing goods, is the sense of tasting; and the delights proper to it are the various kinds of delicate foods.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

TASTE, sense of.—The love of self-nourishment, grounded in the love of imbibing goods, is the sense of tasting, and the delights proper to it are the various kinds of delicate foods, 210.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

Against the background of high efficiency that the new pragmatics made possible, competition is replaced by controlled distribution, and the experience of self-nourishment is replaced by that of being fed.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

It must have some source of self-nourishment, for it can derive little from the sand whereon it rests.

From If I May by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)